Chapter 6

As she stood outside the Game shop Emma hesitated wondering whether or not she should enter. She didn't want to face Joey once she had told them that Kaiba would no longer help them, as she was sure that he would cause a fuss and say 'I told you so'. Why should she care what they think anyway, it wasn't like she had anything to prove to them?

Finally she climbed the stairs to the apartment and pushed open the door. She saw that Yugi and Tea had returned and were sat on the sofa while Joey and Bakura were still seated at the table.

Joey stood up from the table. "Well?" he asked.

She shook her head as she answered. "The one lead that we had and it looks like it's come to a standstill."

"What do you mean?" asked Bakura, looking slightly shocked.

Emma couldn't bear to look a Joey as she explained so moved around talking to no one in particularly as she spoke. "To cut a long story short, Kaiba's refused to help us any further." She waited for Joey to brag about how he was right but he didn't say a word.

"Now what do we do?" asked Tea breaking the silence.

Yugi sighed. "Back to searching the books I guess, see if we can find anything else on this." He approached the table and opened the closest book to him.

"But I've been through all of the books and I've found nothing else!" exclaimed Bakura.

"Hmm." said Joey as he thought. "You don't suppose that there could be an evil spirit inside that thing do ya?"

"It could be possible," shrugged Bakura. "But we'd have seen signs of it by now if it was so."

"Like a change in his behaviour." said Yugi as he turned the pages of his grandfather's book.

"Maybe he's resisting." Joey added.

"Let it go." Tea warned him.

"Well if he is resisting then we'd also have seen signs of that too." Assured Bakura.

"What do you mean?" Asked Emma as she listened to the conversation.

Bakura explained what he meant by his last remark. "When I had the same trouble with the millennium ring it used to cause me to have extremely bad headaches."

"Hey!" exclaimed Joey. "That spirit's not still bothering you is he? Because I recall that you had one earlier."

"That's enough Joey." Snapped Tea from behind him. "I'm sure if you'd have been reading books all day, you'd have a headache too."

"Joey may be right for once." Emma interrupted. She had managed to catch all of their attentions. "Mokuba doesn't duel yet he was building a deck to defeat Kaiba with. I'd say that that was a change in behaviour. And the other night when Kaiba and I duelled he had a headache when we were leaving."

"Even if the teeth did contain the spirit of Sobek, he was a pretty peaceful god most of the time." Bakura filled them in with the Egyptian mythology. "He only became aggressive at times when the pharaohs were involved. Like the time he helped Horus to bring about Set's defeat after the death of Orsirus."

"So how was this Set guy defeated?" asked Joey taking an interest in what Bakura had to say.

"You don't want to know." Yugi told him still turning the pages of the book.

Emma had spent the past few moments thinking things over in her head. She needed to be clear on a couple of things first though. "Bakura, Horus and Set were rivals right?"

"I guess you could say that." he answered.

"And in the hieroglyphics wasn't the current Pharaoh of the time represented as Horus?" She asked her second question.

"Yes." said Bakura as he nodded slowly. "But I don't see where this is going anywhere."

"I do." said Yugi who had stopped searching through the book. Everyone turned to face him. "Yami is the pharaoh and Kaiba is our rival, so that makes me Horus and Kaiba Set."

"Then if Mokuba is possessed by the spirit of Sobek, we'd have nothing to fear right?" asked Tea in an unsure voice.

"But Kaiba will." Emma stated as she looked at the clock. He would almost have finished reordering those papers by now. "I have to warn him."

"You're gonna help someone who just refused to help you!" Joey said in disbelief.

"Do any of you know where he lives?" Emma asked ignoring him.

Joey sighed. "I guess you're just too nice for your own good."

Yugi had written down Kaiba's address and handed it to Emma. "Remember that you're not in this alone and we're right here if you need us."

"Thanks." said Emma as she took the address and headed out to her new destination.

Outside in the street Emma ran for a cab which drove off before she reached it. She swore loudly and then checked her watch. She wasn't sure how long it would take her to get there on foot especially since she didn't know the way, but she started walking anyway.

Suddenly she had an idea. She'd leave Kaiba out of the picture and go straight for Mokuba herself. He wasn't going to believe her anyway so why make things harder than they had to be?

She pulled a cell phone from her pocket and used the speed dial for the only number she had stored on it and waited for the other end to be answered. She hadn't told anyone about her cell phone as she knew that Shadi would have disapproved of it. Where was he anyway?

"Hello." Came the reply from the phone.

"Hi it's me." Emma spoke checking her watch once more. "I need you to do me a favour."

"Emma, darling, sweetie you know I'd do anything for you." replied the voice on the other end of the phone.

"Whatever." Emma rolled her eyes. "Listen I need to keep Seto Kaiba at Kaiba Corp. I hear that he's a real work-a-holic and likes to sort out a lot of things himself, so I was wondering if you could do something like crash his computer systems as I know that that will keep him busy for a while."

"I can do better than that." laughed the voice. "I could unleash a virus on to his system which will give him the run around for hours. What kind would you like me to use?"

"I don't care what kind." she was becoming impatient with the person on the other side. "Just as long as it stalls him for a few hours."

"Consider it done." assured an amused voice.

"Thanks Max, I owe you one." She quickly cancelled the call and continued to search for the right way to Kaiba's mansion.